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March 4, 2019 By Garry Eaton 5 Comments

Book of the Week: As the Crow Flies

 

 

It humbles me to  comment on our Book of the Week, As the Crow Flies, A Poetic Journey of Wisdom by Don Baird. The breadth and depth of his vision as expressed through these poems is extraordinary. Please, just read and enjoy.

 

I find inspiration from the voice(s) of nature over and over. Nature is active — it’s interactive. It’s vibrant. It is movement within movement and the stillness next to a cricket weaving stars together with his voice. It’s activity — interactivity, and beyond.

Haiku crawl up branches, sing to the stars; they twinkle and wink . . . and they snow. Haiku breathe, and follow shadows into frozen ponds. They dodge mantis attacks; and, they scurry with rabbits under the shadows of hawks.

The continuum of these little moments linked together like pearls on a necklace, is nature’s generous and abundant spiritual lessons for those that will listen.

thawing ice …
the descending song
of a blossom

 

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or earlier you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details.

Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF Digital Librarian Garry Eaton, and are used with permission

 

 

 

Filed Under: Book-of-the-Week Archive Tagged With: As the Crow Flies, Book of the Week, Don Baird

Comments

  1. Christina Pecoraro says

    March 12, 2019 at 2:07 pm

    A thoroughly contemplative read!
    Its spiritual depth leaves me almost breathless.
    Thank you, DON.
    And you, GARRY, for featuring Don’s work.

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  2. Don Baird says

    March 7, 2019 at 12:42 am

    Thank you, Garry, for featuring my book. I greatly appreciate it. The more readers the merrier!!! I hope it resonates with folks and that ,somehow, it makes a difference in someone’s life! (or, many someones’)

    Peace,

    Don

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    • Zdenka Mlinar says

      March 7, 2019 at 9:43 am

      Worship and respect…
      Thank you very much!

      Reply
  3. Mike Stinson says

    March 5, 2019 at 9:02 am

    This morning, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Have not come across anything quite like it. His imagination and insights into nature wisdom, Tao, poetics are sublime. Thank you!

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  4. Alan Summers says

    March 4, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    A brilliant book, and was I was delighted to write the back cover blurb:
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    “Haiku poems can be likened to rustling leaves; a slow summer breeze; a hot of an owl through your mind; as well as a pocketful of knuckles. Don Baird brings us haiku full of edge and resonance, as a conscientious, generous, and unselfish writer using heart, mind, and craft to bring what we’d forgotten we were familiar with in the first place.”
    https://www.amazon.com/As-Crow-Flies-Don-Baird/dp/1300436905/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=as+the+crow+flies+dan+baird&qid=1551732621&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0

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